Gil Kane

Gil Kane (6 April1926 – 31 January2000; age 73) was a Latvian comic book author and artist for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and others. He was most well known for his work on the three issue anti-drug storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man in the early 1970's and his depiction of Gwen Stacey's death two years later in the same series, as well as DC's second Green Lantern series (particularly Hal Jordan's adventures).